Virtual Tour of 46th and Market Area

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The West Park Apartments, separated from Market Street by the Market-Frankford line as it rises above ground. Stakeholders are hoping to find ways to increase connectivity between the neighborhoods north and south of Market St.

The SEPTA elevated line comes above ground at 45th and Market Streets. Add to this grade changes, walls, fences, dead end streets, and few pedestrian access points and you have a neighborhood in need of creative connectivity solutions.

Market Street was just repaved with bike lanes in both directions.

Looking down Market Street, you can see 4601 Market, the site of the new Police Department, the Aldi’s parking lot, and the 46th Street Station.

View of 4601 Market Street and the stairwell to West Park from The Enterprise Center.

The imfamous stairwell from Market Street up to the West Park Apartments. You can’t tell, but there was someone walking up the stairs when this photograh was taken.

The Aldi’s parking lot is huge and usually empty, adding to the vacant, dark, and blighted feel of the intersection.

Recently, blighted row homes along Farragut Street were demolished, leaving the SEPTA station alone on the intersection.

4601 Market Street closeup, where the Philadelphia Police Department may move its headquarters.

The new Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Karobot’s Pediatric Center on Market and 48th Street.

The Kirkbride Center on 48th Street north of Market St. has been serving the mentally ill since the early 1800s.

The new Youth Study Center has been built on 48th St. and Haverford Ave.

The wide 46th Street leads from Haverford to Market St. The Nehemiah Homes are visible here.

Locke elementary school at 46th St. and Haverford Ave. currently features a pavement playgrond. A schoolyard greening project was recommended during the charrette.